Pat Spencer Would Very Much Like To Remind Everybody That He's One Of The Best Players In The Nation
The talent level in DI college lacrosse is absurd. Especially at the attack position. You’ve got kids like Justin Guterding from Duke putting up literally all of the points. You’ve got Connor Fields at Albany who puts ridiculous numbers every week. With Fields at Albany, you’ve got the #1 freshmen in the nation with Tehoka Nanticoke. Then you’ve got the Ivy League which is basically just an attackmen showcase every week with kids like Ben Reeves from Yale, Michael Sowers from Princeton and Jeff Teat from Cornell. Ethan Walker at Denver. Andrew Pettit at Lehigh. Mac O’Keefe at Penn State. Everywhere you look, there’s another kid filling an entire highlight reel in just one game. So it’s crazy to think that a kid who scored 89 points his freshman year and 83 points his sophomore year could end up getting overlooked.
But that’s what tends to happen with Loyola’s Pat Spencer from time to time. He has over 200 points so far in his career and he still has another 2 full months of lacrosse to play this year, and then another full season next year. He put up 12 points alone in Loyola’s 15-9 win over Navy this past weekend, and this goal right here was the best of them.
Gotta love the reaction behind the cage right there. Hands on the head, can’t believe what he just saw.
Let’s just recap what happened right there, shall we? He dodges a pole and draws a slide. Now usually with a kid like Pat Spencer, you want to hold off on sliding to him at all costs. Primarily because he’s such a great feeder that anytime you slide to him, he knows where the slide is coming from and will either be able to feed it to the slide man or expose the 2 on the backside for a goal. Basically if you slide to him, it’s a guaranteed assist. But this time he changes it up a bit. He decides not to feed after drawing the slide, switches hands, pulls off a backhand toe drag on the slide guy, and then is able to pull that backhand shot off before the 2nd slide gets there. So that’s 3 out of 4 poles on the field that he just worked and oh yeah, he was also able to stash that away in the corner. Not a big deal or anything. That’s just what Pat Spencer does.
We also had undefeated Albany wax undefeated Vermont in what was supposed to be the marquee game of the weekend. Overall it wasn’t exactly the most eventful weekend in college lacrosse. You can check out everything else that happened right here in our new weekend recap videos.
P.S. – Sport of the Future.